What are the conditions for Overseas Chinese, Hong Kong citizens, Macao citizens, Taiwan citizens or Shanghai citizens to adopt an orphan who is supported by a social orphanage and whose natural parents are not known?

(02.20.2008)

The conditions for an Overseas Chinese, Hong Kong citizen, Macao citizen,
Taiwan citizen or Shanghai citizen to adopt an orphan who is supported by a
social orphanage and whose natural parents are not known are as follows:

(1) either of the couple is at least 30 years old;

(2) the adopting party shall have the ability to support and educate the
adoptee;

(3) the adopting party shall not have any diseases that are considered
medically unsuitable when adopting children;

(4) the couple shall have an unanimous idea of adoption;

(5) in the case of the adopting party being a single man, if he plans to
adopt a female orphan, the age gap between he and the adoptee must be at least
40 years; and

(6) the adoptee must be an orphan who is younger than 14 years of age,
supported by a social orphanage and whose natural parents are not known.